Thursday, July 29. So, we made it. It was nice to sleep in our own bed, but by 4:30 am, the bio-clock was saying “it’s way past time to be up.” The postman just delivered several pounds of mostly insignificant printed matter and one of our bags that decided to spend an extra day in …
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 As previously noted, this trip has been pretty damn wonderful and today we put just a touch of additional gilding atop this L’Opera dessert that was our July on the Continent. After our last petit dejeuner at hotel Belloy Saint Germain and a 35 minute RER train trip to Charles de …
I’d intended to keep this a running travel blog, but we just seemed to run out of hours in the day. I do plan on going back and filling in the holes. Memories are short. I’ll need to do it soon. Mahalo
Tuesday, July 27 Today is our last day in the City of Light and our short 3+ day stop has been great. The day opened with a quick au revoir to Hotel Crystal. We didn’t like the room or the neighborhood, so we moved a bit closer to the Sorbonne and the Latin Quarter. Our …
Aloha Friday, July 23, 2010 It was simply a wonderful day at the TdF. This morning started out with just a few clouds in the sky and mild temperatures. Our tram trip to le Tour starting line was halted about two-thirds of the way there because the Line B tram that we’d hope to transfer …
Thursday, July 22 It is unbelievable that by this time next week we’ll be on a west-bound plane. It has been so fun and so quick. A month just isn’t what it used to be. Today we decided to do a bit of recon for a viewing spot of tomorrow’s arrival of stage 18 of …
Monday, July 19 Our train trips on this excursion have been great, but there are few things I like more than driving around rural France. Other than hiking or biking, and I’m way too much of a devotee of sloth for extensive use of either of those modes of transport, you just can’t beat travel …
Saturday, July 17 Today we left our wonderful home in Dijon. The stay was great and we loved the market, being able to do a bit of cooking, the bikes, museums and the great little restaurant we found, but the Gypsy in us was calling. Coco, our host, delivered us to the gare to …
Watching the tube in our Dijon apartment, Laurel had a wonderful idea. If you watch CNN International, BBC World, Al Jazeera or almost any of the global channels, when they do weather map and summaries, they always include temperatures and condition summaries from continents around the globe. Wouldn’t it provide a big boost to US …
Thursday, July 14 Today was one of those top-to-bottom glorious days in France. The day began with omelets and hash browns—OK, the pomme de terre with le petit déjeuner but they looked good at the Carrefour. It was then time to add a bit of culture to our Dijon stay. A quick walk across the …